Pretty much every big name in comedy came out of the famed Second City in Chicago. The theater gave some of the most famous names in funny their first big time on stage like Bill Murray, Keegan-Michael Key, Bob Odenkirk, Peter Boyle, Fred Willard and the late Harold Ramis. Of…
Tensions between the US and the Australian entertainment industry have been a little mixed since we refused to accept Yahoo Serious as a movie star. It’s a shame because Australia is full of some very funny people who deserve a shot at the big time in the States. Wil Anderson…
Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury, the comedy music video that gave comedian and writer Rachel Bloom a career, smashed an untapped nerve with a sledgehammer. The NSFW ode used a teen pop sound to celebrate one of the greatest sci-fi writers (he always called himself a “fantasy” writer) of all time…
Every kid with a bike wants to jump it off of something the minute they realized it belonged to them. Some of them stop having that dream as soon as they take one jump too many and scrape a knee, sprain an elbow or their third or fourth skin graft…
I never thought the DVD would fall from grace so quickly. The digital media revolution was inevitable but who knew it would happen so fast? Places like Netflix, Crackle and Hulu haven’t just eliminated the need for a DVD player to watch movies. Traditional broadcast and cable television may very…
Like all great satirists, David Sedaris realizes that the best way to explore the foibles of human nature is to jump on the grenade and let all of your deepest fears and secrets splatter over every page. He can slice through just about any cultural taboo that the PC police…
You’re not a true movie geek until you’ve been to the Alamo Drafthouse at least 1,312 times. They’ve become a growing mecca of pop culture goodness as new locations spring up all throughout the country. We’ve been gifted with our own theater in Richardson but one theater can’t truly house…
The first time Flip Orley got on a stage and used his hypnotic powers to make people do his bidding, he himself had to be coaxed into doing it. Of course, it wasn’t with a swinging pocket watch or a spinning spiral. Sometimes, nagging someone enough is its own form…
Every fanboy who open carries a Star Trek phaser or a replica of Ashley Williams’ stump mounted chainsaw honestly believes they could survive a zombie apocalypse. It’s a flawed theory at best. Life isn’t a movie. Even the most daring hero runs out of ammo or forgets to prime their…
Sometimes it feels like all of the horror has been sucked out of Halloween. Unending gore and violent things you can’t un-see has replaced good old-fashioned fear and thoughts that the supernatural just might be real. Cirque du Horror attempts to bring back those frightful feelings by bringing back some…
Adam Sandler’s movie career may have brought the world many horrible things that have been burned into our eyes with a branding iron but it did bring us something worthy of our attention like comedian Nick Swardson. He’s a born storyteller with some seriously weird and strange experiences that are…
Some comics travel for their trade because of their love of the art form or some inner need for attention or the hope of delivering to mankind a new plateau of understanding through the power of laughter. Lavell Crawford has a brutally honest reason for what keeps him going in…
The Alamo Drafthouse is about to launch a massive invasion on the Dallas-Fort Worth area, opening several new theaters, and it starts downtown with a new movie house on South Lamar Street. Developers for the new theater announced plans to break ground on the construction next month but a gathering…
When you think of video games, you probably think of overweight guys sitting in their basement den as they spray blood across their TV screen. You probably think of massive guns that not even a body builder could carry and aim with effectively at the same time. The indie game…
If you don’t have kids or live on a block where the neighborhood kids don’t throw eggs at the houses that don’t give out candy on Halloween, then the best way to enjoy Halloween is by going to a theater for a good, old fashioned horror movie. The Alamo Drafthouse…
The great comedians know that they don’t have to create fiction, they simply have to pluck out the insane bits of a world trying to wrestle with its sanity and present it in the way a carnival barker would just before he pulls back the curtain to reveal some horrid…
All fans of anything have lists in their heads of famous hands they’d like to shake — those attached the faces and voices they’ve seen in their favorite movies and TV shows. There’s just something about making that face-to-face to contact with the people you’ve worshiped from afar that makes…
Comedian Jim Gaffigan has made a living talk about his love of food but unlike some snooty Food Network talking head who treats sustenance as some kind of sexual valhalla, Gaffigan treats like a long, enduring marriage. He clearly loves such an important part of his life, even if it’s…
Thanks to the rise of technology, mankind seems to have forgotten the simple of joy of two simple things: taking a picture and walking. Everyone with a phone in their pocket has a camera that can take digital pictures for us and thanks to Uber and Rascal Scooters, we never…
Deep down, every comic book fan wishes for some kind of superpower that would allow them to dish out world justice or attract men or women with a made-for-spandex body. Next year, fans will get their chance to act out superhero fantasies with The Marvel Experience, a new interactive ride,…
The NBC reality show “Last Comic Standing” may have been credited with bringing stand-up comedy back to mainstream television but it’s goal isn’t just to showcase underground talent or give them a shot at the spotlight. It’s also to create the kind of tension and unnecessary squabbles over meaningless things…
America doesn’t take kindly to foreigners these days. We’ve got civilians constantly monitoring our borders with guns and political figureheads calling for non-figurative walls to be built because they need votes and didn’t pay attention in their high school world history class. Occasionally, one of these non-Americans seeps through the…
